Cheapt PowerPC G4 PCI coprocessor card for the PC?

[Frank de Groot]

I am looking for the cheapest PowerPC G4 PCI coprocessor board for the PC.

All boards I have found are for military/medical applications and they sell
for very inflated prices compared to a Mac Mini.

When a Mac Mini can sell for 500 USD, shouldn't it be possible to have a PCI
card with a 1 GHz G4 available for 300 USD?

Volume and R&D cost is the issue here of course..

Anyonecould point me to the cheapest G4 PowerPC board(s) available? (1000
USD would be my limit).

Thanks,

Frank de Groot

[Paul Russell]

Post by Frank de Groot
I am looking for the cheapest PowerPC G4 PCI coprocessor board for the PC.
All boards I have found are for military/medical applications and they sell
for very inflated prices compared to a Mac Mini.
When a Mac Mini can sell for 500 USD, shouldn't it be possible to have a PCI
card with a 1 GHz G4 available for 300 USD?
Volume and R&D cost is the issue here of course..
Anyonecould point me to the cheapest G4 PowerPC board(s) available? (1000
USD would be my limit).

Why not just buy a Mac Mini and be done with it ? You'd get a lot more
for your money, plus a decent operating system and great developer tools.

Paul

[Jesse Joe]

Post by Frank de Groot
I am looking for the cheapest PowerPC G4 PCI coprocessor board for the PC.
All boards I have found are for military/medical applications and they sell
for very inflated prices compared to a Mac Mini.
When a Mac Mini can sell for 500 USD, shouldn't it be possible to have a PCI
card with a 1 GHz G4 available for 300 USD?
Volume and R&D cost is the issue here of course..
Anyonecould point me to the cheapest G4 PowerPC board(s) available? (1000
USD would be my limit).

Since someone else pooh-poohed your request already...

Failing a PCI-installed daughtercard, would a BriQ, such as is sold by
Terra Soft, work for you? It'd have to interface with ethernet rather
than PCI, is the downside. But on the upside, you can shove a PowerPC
into an Intel system that way.

Just a backup idea, and good luck.

Also, please, post experiences with whatever solution you decide on.

--Jesse Joe

[Frank de Groot]

Post by Jesse Joe
Also, please, post experiences with whatever solution you decide on.

I had contacted them, also about their PCI card but so far no response about
prices etc.

[Jesse Joe]

Post by Frank de Groot

Post by Jesse Joe
Also, please, post experiences with whatever solution you decide on.

I had contacted them, also about their PCI card but so far no response about
prices etc.

Wow, I didn't see that they were distributing a PCI card these days.
Have patience though, I had to email them about something a while back,
and their hardware people seem to take a day or three to answer mail.

--jjoe

[DarbyCrash]

Post by Frank de Groot
I am looking for the cheapest PowerPC G4 PCI coprocessor board for the PC.
All boards I have found are for military/medical applications and they sell
for very inflated prices compared to a Mac Mini.
When a Mac Mini can sell for 500 USD, shouldn't it be possible to have a PCI
card with a 1 GHz G4 available for 300 USD?
Volume and R&D cost is the issue here of course..
Anyonecould point me to the cheapest G4 PowerPC board(s) available? (1000
USD would be my limit).
Thanks,
Frank de Groot

I doubt you'll find it. It wouldn't make sense to run a G4 co-processor
off a PCI daughter board. You would bottleneck on the PCI bus speed.
You'd be better off just using a PPC emulator like pearpc->
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net.